As the plane landed, passenger Grant Cardone decided to take a video of the Hudson River. But he had no idea he was actually about to capture. In his video, a flock of birds can clearly be seen heading for the plane's right wing.

"I just didn't know if they were gonna get digested through the system or not, and if the engine was gonna catch on fire," Cardone said. "I thought we were gonna roll over...I experienced a tremendous amount of turbulence and lurching up and down, and I thought we were gonna roll."

Cardone said it was a truly terrifying scene. He credits the pilot and the crew for being able to make it back safely to JFK Airport.